For Homestead and Honour

For Homestead and Honour, or the Rally of the Boy Scouts by R.L. Mullarkey is a 1912 Australian play. The play was presented by William Anderson.

It was one of a series of popular early Australian written plays.

The play concerned a hypothetical war between Germany and Britain and how it might affect Australia, with an emphasis on the role to be played by the boy scouts. The play was written in two weeks in honour of Baden Powell.

The Bulletin said the play "might have been hurled together in two days. Its outstanding defect is that it is  without a redeeming feature. A more dull,  futile, amorphous and utterly absurd dra- matic misdemeanor the present benevolently  disposed critic has not encountered. The  idea appears to be to picture a German in-vasion of Australia; but if it is informed that the play was written with the object of show-ing the effects of pre-Raphaelism upon the cow industry this paper will decline to be  surprised. Anyhow, the nebulous suggestion of a plot disappears from view after the first act. "